Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb base] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My reasons for so soon destroying my drawings were these ; though I dare say that they do n't appear so rational to any one but myself : I was obliged to limit the work — in order to get more subscribers — & to erase the drawings — because the expense is considerable for keeping them on , & I have pretty great difficulty in paying my monthly charges , — for to pay colourer & printer monthly I am obstinately pre-possessed — since I had rather be at the bottom of the River Thames — than be one week in debt — be it never so small . |
| 2 | The only way I can think of , or I think as far as anyone else can think of , deciding whether it has in fact been important in speciation , is to look for pairs of closely related species which differ in some striking morphological trait , but are still sufficiently similar genetically for you to be able to carry out a genetic analysis , i.e. to cross them , to get offspring , to get F two 's and it 's then possible , it 's obviously not — I 'm not going to explain the details of the technique to you now — but it 's possible to work out whether the difference is due largely , or in part , to some single large gene , or whether it 's on the whole due to quite a lot of small ones . |
| 3 | I have cast this account in the past tense in order to relate it to the developments of the late 1960s , although I know that much of this shape and many of these assumptions have survived . |
| 4 | I am making good progress — slow but sure — and have now graduated on to walking sticks , although I feel very wobbly on these having had the crutches for a month . |
| 5 | For example , I used to play squash reasonably well , although I have only monocular vision . |
| 6 | That 's possible , although I think not likely , and if that happened , it would be a major development . |
| 7 | I was only there a few weeks and was so bored and anxious to be gone that I remember very little about the place . |
| 8 | It was for a number of reasons , apart from a wish to escape from teaching , that I set out some weeks later for Libya , then a country almost entirely unknown . |
| 9 | So has that just been recording all that I 've just all I 've just said ? |
| 10 | I realised that I get far more excitement than my heart and head can stand just from seeing my favourite sportsmen or women or teams fight their good fights and win magnificently , or lose unluckily ( always unluckily ) and my blood pressure would be much better off without even that vicarious sort of excitement . |
| 11 | WHY IS it that I get so much personally addressed mail ? |
| 12 | It 's not the children that I get so annoyed on the the trick or treat and the previous running up to the bonfire night . |
| 13 | It 's just that I get so lonely sometimes . |
| 14 | What , what you 're saying is that I mean broadly this is , is quite an incentive based system , at least on the face of it |
| 15 | ‘ It shocks a lot of people , they do n't believe that I eat so much . |
| 16 | My husband , who 's 41 , hates the fact that I smoke and moans that I eat too much . |
| 17 | same leg , so erm , see Gary moans at me that I , he says that I eat too much erm salt , now if I was to eat that much salt I would n't get cramp |
| 18 | In bed , drifting on the edge of sleep , I think of November evenings in my own town that I hate so much , London , with its sky of sagging cloud , where all the beautiful women already have boyfriends . |
| 19 | My only rather weighty problem is the fact that I speak very little French though I am learning , both at French lessons and at my Medau classes . |
| 20 | ‘ I see that I know very little . |
| 21 | ‘ You introduced me to Paris and it will be my turn to introduce you to England — not that I know very much about London . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's just that I know how all-controlling you are . |
| 23 | I promise you that I will continue to listen and where I can I will do my best to respond to the wishes of the ideals of and the aspirations of this movement that I hold so dear . |
| 24 | Do I want to follow a set exercise programme or would I prefer to change my life-style so that I become more active ? |
| 25 | Moreover , you know that I become quite powerless whenever I am obliged to write for an instrument which I can not bear [ the flute ] . |
| 26 | I have always made it clear that I take seriously any allegations of misbehaviour in any children 's home in Wales . |
| 27 | That I regard as unfortunate . |
| 28 | ‘ So what are you suggesting : that I make up some nice little story ? |
| 29 | Certainly Americans see it as being very different from their home-grown shows and for some reason they all seem to think that I ask rather cheeky questions , which I 'll take as a compliment . |
| 30 | exerting , that I carry too much weight and I know that and its like the lady said its not the chocolate biscuits but it is erm self erm |